A riveting account of the flawed leadership, bad luck and virulent personalities that led to the 2006 murder of an entire Iraqi family by American soldiers.
Health care and bank accounts loom large in Lionel Shriver?s multifaceted 10th novel, in which plans, relationships and families are changed by illness.
With an assist from others? quotations, David Shields argues that our deep need for reality is not being met by the old and crumbling models of literature.
"More and more people now purchase their books on the Internet since they find it more convenient. Sector representatives estimate that the online book-selling industry is expanding by some 30 percent per year in Turkey in line with the ever-increasing...
"The collection includes 175 incunabula (early printed books before 1500), around 500 rare Bibles, Restoration and Quarto drama volumes, including a rare collection of early Shakespeare volumes, and a large quantity of high quality, limited edition British 19th and 20th...
"Johnson favors quirky stories about cyber-missionaries or tattooed librarians over the day-to-day operations of community libraries and issues of budget constraints. She finds that a group defined by discretion and helpfulness in person is often "clamorous" online, where hip librarians...
"By making access to books easier, online bookstores are also credited with helping the publishing sector. Kizir contends that the number of people who are avid readers has at least doubled over the past 10 years thanks to the attractive...
"The 14,000 books, which include rare bibles and atlases, will be bought for 1.2 million by the University with help from the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and the Welsh Assembly Government." Read this article....
"Two parts of an ancient biblical manuscript separated across centuries and continents were reunited for the first time in a joint display Friday, thanks to an accidental discovery that is helping illuminate a dark period in the history of the...
"The Beineckes online exhibitions garnered more than 321,000 hits in 2009, as compared to the roughly 75,000 visitors to the building, according to statistics compiled by the Beinecke." Read this article....
"As the literary world waits to find out what, if anything, J.D. Salinger wrote in his New Hampshire hideaway, fans of the reclusive author can satisfy their longing for new works by reading five of his unpublished stories that can...
"Born to Ukrainian parents, Jose Mindlin owned over 38,000 books and was a member of the prestigious Brazilian Academy of Letters. In 2006, he donated about half of his collection to the University of Sao Paulo, mostly on topics related...
"The gift, in addition to other donations, will be used to turn the sixth floor of Van Pelt where the Rare Book and Manuscript Library is housed into a Special Collections Center that creates a more functional and...
